Rs Buddihsm Year 8

• 4 Noble Truths

  • Dukkha: There is suffering
  • Samudaya: There is a cause for suffering (three poisons)
  • Nirodha: Suffering can be ended temporarily
  • Magga: Suffering is ended by following the Eightfold Path
• Three Poisons

  • Moha: ignorance, delusion, confusion (pig)
  • Lobha: greed, sensual attachment (cockerel)
  • Dosa: anger, hatred (snake)
• 10 Precepts

  • Refrain from harming living things
  • Refrain from taking what is not given
  • Refrain from misconduct of the senses
  • Refrain from wrong speech
  • Refrain from taking intoxicants that dull the mind
• Nibbana

  State of perfection
• Siddhartha Gautama was born in 563BCE in Lumbini
• Siddhartha's parents were Queen Maya and King Suddhodana
• Asita predicted that if Siddhartha lived a life of luxury he would become a great king, but if he suffered, he would be a religious teacher
• Siddhartha left the palace at age 29 with his friend Channa
• Siddhartha had 3 palaces - one for summer, one for winter and one for the rainy season
• The 4 Sights

  • An old man
  • A sick man
  • A corpse
  • A monk
• Siddhartha spent 6 years as an ascetic, rejecting luxuries like food and clothes and depriving himself
• Siddhartha realised that punishing his body by self-harm was not the way to overcome suffering
• Middle Way


  A balance of deprivation and luxury, the only way to reach peace
• Siddhartha meditated for 49 days under the Bodhi tree to reach enlightenment
• Mara tried to distract Siddhartha by sending his five daughters (pride, greed, fear, ignorance and desire)
• Siddhartha remained unfazed and finally reached enlightenment, becoming the Buddha
• Three Marks of Existence/Three Universal Truths

  • Anicca: All things are impermanent and everything will cease to exist
  • Dukkha: There is suffering
  • Anatta: There is no such thing as self
• Five Aggregates

  • Form (physical)
  • Sensation (feelings)
  • Perception (how we recognise things)
  • Mental Formations (our thoughts)
  • Consciousness (our awareness)